Education
The Education area at SFU Engage focuses on developing innovative, action‑based learning experiences that equip students from all disciplines and professions with entrepreneurial skills and mindsets. Engage’s educational mission is to help students become change agents who can navigate complex societal challenges and drive innovation in both the private and public sectors.
We achieve this through educating and supporting staff members in higher education institutions in Norway and abroad who has teaching roles in their home institutions.
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ADHD – an entrepreneur superpower?
Cecilie Haukland is the co-founder of ‘ADHD Ressurssenter’ and an SFU Engage PhD candidate. She submitted her thesis, ‘Unleashing Potential: Rethinking Entrepreneurship Education for Students with ADHD,’ to the SFU Engage Centre at Nord…
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Kompetanse for endring: Bli en tryggere og fremtidsrettet underviser
Hvordan kan vi som undervisere ved Nord universitet bidra til å utdanne robuste, kreative og fremtidsrettede studenter? Svaret starter med oss selv!
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Embedding Entrepreneurship in Teaching – Advanced Course
Enhance your teaching by integrating entrepreneurial concepts and methods!
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EiT Innovation Awards – A glimpse of NTNU students’ unique ability to innovate
The very first EiT Innovation Awards was a measure to pass on the value the students contribute to EiT.
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Kurs for utdannere: Entreprenørskapsutdanning for bedre læring
Dette kurset vil inspirere deg til å hjelpe studentene dine med å utvikle evnen til å skape den forandringen de ønsker å se i verden!
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Naya Development Represents NTNU at the Fourth Edition of STAGE TWO 2024
From the 30th to the 31st of October, the fourth edition of Stage Two took place in Berlin, bringing together Europe’s top university startups. Among this year’s competitors was Naya Development, representing NTNU with…
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Boost Henne: Breaking Stereotypes in Entrepreneurship- Empowering Women to Lead Startups
On October 12, around 40 participants gathered at NTNU for “Breaking the Myths,” an event by Boost henne. Female entrepreneurs shared insights to challenge misconceptions and inspire women to pursue entrepreneurship.
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AI, Start-ups and Snacks: an initiative for realizing innovative master projects
Thursday evening on October 3rd, Engage, NTNU’s School of Entrepreneurship, and NorwAI invited master’s students from various programs to explore the possibilities of AI and the commercialization of their master’s projects.
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Empowering Female Entrepreneurs- Boost Henne Kicks Off a New Semester at NTNU
Boost Henne, dedicated to fostering female entrepreneurship at NTNU, kicked off the semester with an event that brought together students from all campuses.
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Student Investor Day 2024 – “An invitation to join the next big businesses on their journey”
For the fourth time, Student Investor Day was arranged in Gruva together with Sparebank 1 SMN, 6AM, and StartupTRD. For the first time, the event was included as a part of Trondheim Tech Week,…
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EiT Innovation Awards – A glimpse of NTNU students’ unique ability to innovate
The very first EiT Innovation Awards was a measure to pass on the value the students contribute to EiT.
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Innovation in gaming happens whether we like it or not!
Gaming Innovation Chapter 2 at NTNU shows students the possibilities that exist within gaming and how important innovation in gaming is for all of us.
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Entrepreneurship education for better learning
How can we make more inclusive local communities? How can we make people change their habits to contribute to a greener society? How can we use artificial intelligence to make more efficient health care…
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Energy Innovation Day – Building momentum for sustainable solutions
As part of NTNU’s Energy Transition Week, Energy Innovation Day took place amid conferences, workshops, and networking events, with the overall perspective focused on the future of energy and the transition into a net-zero…
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1-2-3(4) Pitch! The Business Simulator engages women in entrepreneurship
«Don’t dream about your dream job, create it!», the slogan for Boost Henne is an accurate description for their biggest annual event, the Business Simulator.
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The Prince Daniel Fellowship visits Trondheim´s innovation environment
By Nicole Linnéa Monavari The Prince Daniel Fellowship is an organization which consists of a partnership between the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences(IVA) and the H.K.H Prince Daniel of Sweden. The main purpose…
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The status quo of entrepreneurship and innovation in different disciplines – new report from Engage
An important part of Engage’s vision is to spread entrepreneurship competence into different disciplines in higher education, so that philosophers, economists, nurses, social workers and engineers, to name a few, can see themselves as…
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Book launch: REFRAMING THE CASE METHOD IN ENTREPRENEUSHIP EDUCATION: Cases from the Nordic Countries
We are launching our book on how to educate students to gain an entrepreneurial and innovative mindset through the use of education cases from the Nordic countries.
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Inspired to improve healthcare
Entrepreneurship education engaging students to improve healthcare! By Gunn-Berit Neergård, researcher at SFU Engage In august, the graduate students of nursing education at NTNU were invited to participate in a three-day innovation camp. The…
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Entrepreneurship for improved teaching – intensive UNIPED-module in June and September
Entrepreneurship is a “hot topic” in higher education and is to be implemented in a wide range of disciplines in the time ahead. Are you one of those who must, should or want to…
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SUPER-Linked; The future of education
– We believe that by incorporating real business problems in education it will better prepare the students for working life and give them a better understanding of how their field is used in business…
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How startups can strategically influence legitimacy-building
Legitimacy is not static, it is developed through a process. Startups can influence this process, which means that they can be strategic about how they build legitimacy.
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Can we evaluate entrepreneurship education?
Entrepreneurship education is too complex to only rely on one outcome measure. It is time to rethink our view on assessment.
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How entrepreneurial methods can support student teams to work with sustainable innovation.
An example of how student teams can be encouraged and supported to act, interact, challenge, embrace and reflect while working to solve problems related to sustainability issues.
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Students as educators – Learning through mentoring
The latest study published by Engage showed that valuable learning can happen when students hold the role of educators in student-active and student-led initiatives, such as Spark NTNU.
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The value of entrepreneurial nurses
It is important that nurses learn to be entrepreneurial, because they are the ones who discover important problem areas in their work and have the knowledge needed to solve them. But how do nurses…
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The 3E Conference 2021
In the spring of 2020, entrepreneurship education had to move online. We now have to ask – what does the ‘new’ entrepreneurship education look like?
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Cataly(c)st as a project example of how we work goal-oriented with the UN Sustainable Goals
Cataly(c)st aims to bring best practices from the research world, the maker communities, the youth movements and industry into one strong initiative.
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Sustainability in Engage
Sustainability – in the context of Engage – means ensuring that change agents have the right tools and competency in order to make conscious choices towards sustainable development.
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Giving social entrepreneurs an toolbox for internationalisation
How can we equip social entrepreneurs with the tools needed to succeed internationally in a time where travel is restricted? At Engage, we’re exploring new ways to educate during the pandemic.
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VCP Forum: innovative teaching through the pandemic
What is the topic that can connect 35 educators, from 18 teaching institutions, across five different continents, into one zoom call? The answer is Venture Creation Programs, also known as VCP.
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SUPER: Student-active learning through “wicked problems”
To enable students to tackle the complex challenges of tomorrow, we will need to change the educational methods of how students learn. The project SUPER will look at how student-active learning can make students…
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Facilitating digital mobility in international exchange programs
How can educational institutions adapt to the increasing difficulty of international travel? We’ve taken a deep dive, and looked into how a group of institutions used innovation to combat the issue.
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Entrepreneurship education in higher music education
In a world that deeply values musical products, but are used to not paying for it – how can musicians secure a livelihood? They need to learn entrepreneurial skills.
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Students becoming change agents
In collaboration with NTNUs School of Entrepreneurship, we hosted an Experts in Teamwork village where the students got to develop real life solutions with real impact – becoming change agents.
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Engage Participating in New Sustainable Circular Economy Project
Youth Change Makers as Catalysts for a Transition to a Sustainable Circular Economy involves partners from five Nordic countries and it is co-funded by the Nordic Innovation.
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VCP Forum goes digital
Venture creation programs, VCPs, are educational programs where students have to start their own businesses. We have gathered data from over 200 entrepreneurship education programs
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The importance of innovation in healthcare
How can we equip nursing students with the right tools to engage in innovation in healthcare? Engage recently hosted a seminar with this specific aim.
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Sustainable industrial vegetable production in the north?
Over the course of three weeks, a group of students investigated the possibility of operating a sustainable industrial vegetable production in Mo Industrial Park.
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Empowering students to tackle complex problems
How can we empower students to tackle complex problems? At Engage we believe having a basic knowledge of Design Thinking is essential.
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Sharing Norwegian entrepreneurship practice in new international book
Engage contributes to a new book by sharing Norwegian entrepreneurship practices in three chapters highlighting the CERN Screening Week, the Blast off Week at Nord and the Venture Creation Program at NTNU.
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Five more years for Engage
Engage has become a world-leading centre for entrepreneurship education and has recently been granted an extended period of 5 years. What have we done and what is the future plans of Engage?
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Five key elements of Entrepreneurship Education – Engage’s Educational Framework
We all want to form our students to be able to handle situations they may face in their professional life. At Engage, we focus on developing our students’ Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset for our…
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Educating Entrepreneurial Researchers
The course “Research-based Innovation” aims to develop the entrepreneurial mindset of PhD students to increase their engagement with practitioners.
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Previous Online Events – Pedagogical Interventions in Entrepreneurship Education
Selected participants are pitching their paper, based on the theme Pedagogical Interventions in Entrepreneurship Education, followed by a digital roundtable discussion.
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Opportunity evaluation in the context of sustainable entrepreneurship
What kind of knowledge, skills and attitudes do entrepreneurs need for understanding the social and ecological aspects of an business opportunity?
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EE Explore: Exploring entrepreneurship educations digitally
EE Explore is a collaboration between Engage and ECSB – European Council for small Business and Entrepreneurship – a virtual platform for research interaction globally about Entrepreneurship Education. We arrange a series of online…
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Creating new opportunities
For the second time, NTNU and Engage offers an online course in entrepreneurship and business development. The course was held for the first time this summer and the experiences have been great.
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Reflection as a practice in Entrepreneurship Education
Reflective thinking could help our students learn more by connecting their experiences with theory and incorporate their learning into future tasks. Why and how can we integrate reflective thinking into our educational activities?
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How to become an entrepreneur in a week
This book is written for these teachers, program managers and university administrators. By reading this book, they will learn how eleven other European universities decided to solve this task and learn from their experiences.
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Skapverdi.no – A digital course in Entrepreneurship and Business Development
In the summer of 2020, NTNU will offer an online course in entrepreneurship and business development for laid-off and partially laid-off workers. Read more about it and apply here.
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Virtual teams – A recap of last weeks Engage talk
Mette Mari Wold Johnsen had a talk with Sigrid Westad Brandshaug, Maiken Spjelkevik and Stina Kånhoff about virtual teams and how they can succeed in our latest Engage Talk.
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Engage Talks – digital concept from Engage
Engage talk is new concept on Facebook that Engage is trying out. The concept is a digital series in the field of entrepreneurship where we highlight current topics that can be useful for professionals,…
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How 3D-printers can help fight the pandemic
In the end of March 2020, the Norwegian health care system expressed that they lacked enormous amounts of protective equipment as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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Entrepreneurship is the ability to turn ideas into action
Innovation and entrepreneurship can be explored and practiced in many different ways. Therefore, we asked three of the brilliant minds at Engage to tell us how they work with innovation and entrepreneurship.
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Stimulating best practice sharing for Entrepreneurship Education
An important part of Engage’s vision is to work towards better practices within Entrepreneurship Education. And in order to do that, we need to combine our own learnings with insights from other experts in…
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Norwegian forum for Entrepreneurship Education
In October 2019, Engage hosted the first Norwegian forum of Entrepreneurship Education. These two days were targeted to both creating a network, but also to inspire and provide new tools for educators to use…
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Hoping that today´s crises lead to new opportunities
Iselin Kristine Mauseth Steira thinks that innovation and entrepreneurship is extra important in times like these.
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Spark* goes international
Spark* NTNU was established in 2014, but 2019 was the year the organization took its most significant steps so far. The organization provides mentoring and an entrepreneurial network within the ecosystem at the university…
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Engages Ph.D. candidate at the regional finals of the Researchers’ Grand Prix 2019
In September 2019 Gunn-Berit Sæter competed against nine researchers in the regional finals in Trondheim. Sæter says it was an incredible journey and a lot of work.
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The road to VCP Forum 2020
The VCP-forum is held to connect leading institutions teaching entrepreneurship through venture creation.
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Why is entrepreneurship so important?
We asked three of the great minds working at Engage to tell us why they are so passionate about entrepreneurship.
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NTNU towards acting entreprenurial
The different engineering programs at NTNU have not seen bigger changes since 1993. Now the university wants to include more entrepreneurial activity.
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DIKU and the SFU’s – two days of important discussions
The 21st and 22nd of October, Engage and Excited hosted the biannual DIKU gathering for The Centres for Excellence in Education Initiative (SFU)
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Gründerbrakka: A great initiative that facilitates the development of knowledge-based business ideas
Since the spring of 2018, Gründerbrakka have been taking in students who have innovating ideas and gives them offices to make their businesses.
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Norwegian forum for entrepreneurship education
10. og 11. oktober 2019 blir det faglig påfyll og nettverk med andre norske undervisere i Entreprenørskap, med Heidi Neck og Candida Brush fra Babson College.
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Travelogue – University of Genova and its “Start Up Innovative” program
One of the students from NTNU School of Entrepreneurship, Jonas Aakenes, recently visited the University of Genova to see how they managed the entrepreneurship education at the school.
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Travelogue – Refugee Entrepreneurs Denmark and CO:LAB in Copenhagen
Students from NSE went to Denmark, to visit the incubator Refugee Entrepreneurs Denmark (RED), KPH Projects, CO:LAB and to do interviews for their master thesis
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Travelogue: Trip to the UK to explore VCPs
Engage visited the UK and the goal of the trip was to learn more about how other universities implement a study program in Entrepreneurship, especially a VCP (Venture Creation Program)
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The Journey to a more sustainable world
The Climate-KIC Journey is the world’s largest climate innovation summer school offering transformative learning and hands-on business experience.
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Highly acclaimed entrepreneurship award to NTNU
Marius Tuft Mathisen at NTNU won The Heizer Dissertation Award for his research within the field of entrepreneurship. .
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Engage project wins funding from the research council of Norway’s international partnership
The project will establish a network of institutions to develop knowledge to improve entrepreneurial education
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Entrepreneurship education under the wings
Gunn-Berit Sæter is a PhD Candidate at Engage. Normally, she is working out of NTNU, however two weeks in 2018 she was “desk surfing” at EDEM Escuela de Empresarios, a business school in Valencia,…
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Alumni with entrepreneurial attitude
If entrepreneurship is an attitude, the faculty of EDEM Escuela de Empresarios surely knows how to share this attitude with their students!
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Learning entrepreneurship by being an entrepreneur
Since the very beginning, NTNU School of Entrepreneurship has educated tomorrow’s leaders. In 2018 they celebrate its 15th anniversary.
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A multicultural view on the smart city
What is the learning outcome when millennials from different countries and cultural backgrounds discuss how to develop new technology for a better tomorrow?
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Nominated to best paper award at the 3E Conference.
Iselin Kristine Mauseth, a PhD student at the Engage center at Nord University, started her PhD in August 2017 and got nominated to the best paper award at the 3E-conference in May 2018.
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Musicians can also be entrepreneurs
Bejamin Toscher is teaching a five-week intensive course called entrepreneurship for music, communication and technology.
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A leader in commercialization of technology education: North California State University
Professor Steve Barr is coming to Trondheim next weekend to attend the VCP-conference. He will be speaking about Tech Transfer Offices and VCP collaboration.
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Interdisciplinary teamwork skills for the 21st century
Improv, design thinking and panel discussion are just a few things engaging the participants at the 4th Its21 Conference.
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Work life representation at the Its21 Conference
Collaboration between work life and higher education is important in developing good interdisciplinary teamwork skills. But how can it be solved, and what’s in it for the companies?
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The NTNU signature course
Through experienced-based learning the students are to get a meta perspective on interdisciplinary teamwork. But what makes Experts in Teamwork so valuable?
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The Journey 2018
For the third year in a row NTNU and Engage will be hosting the Journey, Europe’s largest summer school for sustainable business ideas.
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What defines entrepreneurship?
Teachers from secondary schools in the Nordland County was introduced to creative entrepreneurship in education by Engage.
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Get engaged with Engage
We have the power and will to change your way of study, influence the teaching methods and connect you with the market labour and everyday life that is to come.
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How to evaluate entrepreneurship education programs?
PhD candidate Torgeir Aadland at the Engage centre researches the field of venture creation programs. We had a chat with him to hear what venture creation programs are all about.
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Innovation Forum 2017 Bodø
The city of Bodø established in autumn 2017 an Innovation forum.
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“Train the Trainer” – workshops for teaching faculty
Training teaching faculty is a key activity for Engage. Therefore we invites to the workshop “Train the Trainer”.
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NORDTEK Entrepreneurship Conference
Engage invites educators from all Nordic technical universities to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim for the annual Nordtek Entrepreneurship Conference
